Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Perhaps the most faithful transposition of the Batman character from comic book to film, this animated film from 1993 screens on 35mm 10/28, 10/29, and 11/3.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
On 11/3 and 11/5, see David Fincher's elegiac, dark-toned mood piece about the intractable forward march of time, the indifference of history itself, and the strange experience of living within a constantly changing human body.
Hollow Tree
Hollow Tree
At a time of severe environmental crisis, three teenagers come together to face the climate reality in their home state of Louisiana. This special presentation on 11/3 will be followed by a discussion between director Kira Akerman and landscape architect Kate Orff (SCAPE), moderated by filmmaker Kirsten Johnson.
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Access Mornings at MoMI
Access Mornings at MoMI
Offered the first Saturday of each month (June 2023–May 2024), free Access Mornings at MoMI are dedicated to families with children on the autism spectrum and give families an exclusive opportunity to explore exhibitions and ...
Bringing Up Baby
Bringing Up Baby
On 11/4, 11/10, and 11/12, see Howard Hawks's unparalleled screwball classic featuring Katharine Hepburn (in her most truly madcap role) as a flighty heiress who, along with her leopard named “Baby,” reduces Cary Grant's paleontologist to a primitive state.
James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach
Producer Tim Burton and director Henry Selick employ both live action and stop-motion animation to realize Roald Dahl’s wondrous tale about a young orphan (Terry) who grows a magical, colossal iteration of the fuzzy fruit. Screens 11/4, 11/5, and 11/11.
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Everyone Else
Everyone Else
Maren Ade's microscopic look at a relationship in crisis, or perhaps one that might already have passed the point of no return.
Toni Erdmann
Toni Erdmann
In the hands of Maren Ade, one of the most profound and precisely observed films about the condition of contemporary globalized living was also the funniest.
Carnival of Blood
Carnival of Blood
A psychopathic killer uses the carousel ride at a Coney Island carnival to pick his victims, whom he then murders and dismembers on the world-famous boardwalk. Burt Young appears in his first screen role as a hunchbacked, facially disfigured carnival worker.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
On 11/3 and 11/5, see David Fincher's elegiac, dark-toned mood piece about the intractable forward march of time, the indifference of history itself, and the strange experience of living within a constantly changing human body.
James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach
Producer Tim Burton and director Henry Selick employ both live action and stop-motion animation to realize Roald Dahl’s wondrous tale about a young orphan (Terry) who grows a magical, colossal iteration of the fuzzy fruit. Screens 11/4, 11/5, and 11/11.
Toni Erdmann
Toni Erdmann
In the hands of Maren Ade, one of the most profound and precisely observed films about the condition of contemporary globalized living was also the funniest.
MoMI Trivia Night
MoMI Trivia Night
Following a week of early voting at the Museum, join us for a mini trivia session focused on the right to vote. Form teams with your friends and family for the chance to win MoMI membership, guest passes, and special prizes, such as stress balls. Local early voters are especially welcome to join after casting their vote!
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Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
3 events,
A Hidden Life
A Hidden Life
Based on real events, Terrence Malick's film depicts the trials of Austrian martyr and conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to take the Hitler Oath and suffered the consequences of staying true to his ideals.
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick’s toweringly ambitious, time-spanning Palme d’Or-winner, a symphonic vision of a boy’s coming-of-age in suburban 1950s Texas, screens on 35mm on November 10 and 12.
Bringing Up Baby
Bringing Up Baby
On 11/4, 11/10, and 11/12, see Howard Hawks's unparalleled screwball classic featuring Katharine Hepburn (in her most truly madcap role) as a flighty heiress who, along with her leopard named “Baby,” reduces Cary Grant's paleontologist to a primitive state.
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James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach
Producer Tim Burton and director Henry Selick employ both live action and stop-motion animation to realize Roald Dahl’s wondrous tale about a young orphan (Terry) who grows a magical, colossal iteration of the fuzzy fruit. Screens 11/4, 11/5, and 11/11.
35 Shots of Rum
35 Shots of Rum
Claire Denis created one of her warmest, most lived-in dramas in this superb and subtly drawn film, inspired by Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Spring in its evocation of the rich, complex emotions experienced by a father and daughter as he quietly learns to accept that she’s growing up
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation: Program One
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation: Program One
The Eyeworks Festival is an annual screening series focusing on experimental animation presented by Pioneer Works. This year, Museum of the Moving Image hosts the New York presentation of the 2023 program on November 11.
Everyone Else
Everyone Else
Maren Ade's microscopic look at a relationship in crisis, or perhaps one that might already have passed the point of no return.
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation: Program Two
Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation: Program Two
The Eyeworks Festival is an annual screening series focusing on experimental animation presented by Pioneer Works. This year, Museum of the Moving Image hosts the New York presentation of the 2023 program on November 11.
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A Hidden Life
A Hidden Life
Based on real events, Terrence Malick's film depicts the trials of Austrian martyr and conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to take the Hitler Oath and suffered the consequences of staying true to his ideals.
Bringing Up Baby
Bringing Up Baby
On 11/4, 11/10, and 11/12, see Howard Hawks's unparalleled screwball classic featuring Katharine Hepburn (in her most truly madcap role) as a flighty heiress who, along with her leopard named “Baby,” reduces Cary Grant's paleontologist to a primitive state.
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick’s toweringly ambitious, time-spanning Palme d’Or-winner, a symphonic vision of a boy’s coming-of-age in suburban 1950s Texas, screens on 35mm on November 10 and 12.
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Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
3 events,
Carlito’s Way
Carlito’s Way
See De Palma’s astonishingly well-crafted gangster tale, a kinetic reteaming of the director and star of Scarface, on 11/17 and 11/19.
Joshua Gen Solondz: We Don’t Talk Like We Used To
Joshua Gen Solondz: We Don’t Talk Like We Used To
This program presents Solondz’s latest film, the sprawling, spreading We Don’t Talk Like We Used To alongside a set of personally selected works by the artist’s friends, influences, and teachers. Solondz will appear in person.
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Manakamana
Manakamana
Composed of eleven long hypnotic shots, this transfixing ethnographic documentary follows various pilgrims and tourists as they travel to and from a Nepalese temple via a cable car suspended high over a mountain jungle.
Don’t Eat the Pictures
Don’t Eat the Pictures
Shot on-site at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and made in collaboration with the museum’s own office of film and television, this Sesame Street special was nominated for a primetime Emmy and won France’s 1984 Prix Jeunesse/International. Screening 11/18, 11/19. and 11/24.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
This inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people witnesses the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years.
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
35 Shots of Rum
35 Shots of Rum
Claire Denis created one of her warmest, most lived-in dramas in this superb and subtly drawn film, inspired by Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Spring in its evocation of the rich, complex emotions experienced by a father and daughter as he quietly learns to accept that she’s growing up
The Wise Kids
The Wise Kids
The film that marked the arrival of one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American cinema, The Wise Kids is a poignant coming-of-age drama about young people in the Bible Belt struggling with growing up and growing apart. With director Stephen Cone in person on 11/18!
Princess Cyd
Princess Cyd
Director Stephen Cone’s subtle and deeply felt film is one of the great recent coming-of-age movies. With Cone in person on 11/18!
6 events,
Don’t Eat the Pictures
Don’t Eat the Pictures
Shot on-site at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and made in collaboration with the museum’s own office of film and television, this Sesame Street special was nominated for a primetime Emmy and won France’s 1984 Prix Jeunesse/International. Screening 11/18, 11/19. and 11/24.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
This inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people witnesses the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years.
Black Stone
Black Stone
An overprotective mother engages a film crew working on a documentary about absentee civil servants, mistakenly believing they can help find her missing civil servant son.
Manakamana
Manakamana
Composed of eleven long hypnotic shots, this transfixing ethnographic documentary follows various pilgrims and tourists as they travel to and from a Nepalese temple via a cable car suspended high over a mountain jungle.
Carlito’s Way
Carlito’s Way
See De Palma’s astonishingly well-crafted gangster tale, a kinetic reteaming of the director and star of Scarface, on 11/17 and 11/19.
Macario
Macario
Mexico Now pays homage to renowned TV, theater, and film actor Ignacio López Tarso with a screening of the supernatural drama that launched the actor to international fame and was the first Mexican work to be nominated for an Oscar. With author Susana López Aranda (López Tarso’s daughter) in person.
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Reflected Forms: Story and Character in the Films of Todd Haynes
On the occasion of Todd Haynes’s latest feature, May December, and the Museum’s celebration of the director at the Winter Moving Image Awards, MoMI is pleased to present an exhibit with materials from the archives of filmmaker Todd Haynes, now part of the Museum’s collection.
Don’t Eat the Pictures
Don’t Eat the Pictures
Shot on-site at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and made in collaboration with the museum’s own office of film and television, this Sesame Street special was nominated for a primetime Emmy and won France’s 1984 Prix Jeunesse/International. Screening 11/18, 11/19. and 11/24.
Princess Cyd
Princess Cyd
Director Stephen Cone’s subtle and deeply felt film is one of the great recent coming-of-age movies. With Cone in person on 11/18!
Feast of the Epiphany
Feast of the Epiphany
Directed by Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert, and Farihah Zaman, Feast of the Epiphany is an uncommonly sensitive rumination on the ways people form and choose communities, collaborations, and support groups in the face of hardship, labor, and loss.
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Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
Ten years after the original Ernest & Celestine film introduced the world to the unlikely friendship between a bear and a mouse, the sequel A Trip to Gibberitia takes the duo on a new adventure. Screening 11/25 (in French with English subtitles and 11/26 (in English).
Before Sunset
Before Sunset
One of the greatest romantic films ever made, a brilliantly acted, consistently playful, at times wrenching portrait of lost time, missed chances, and the possibility of changing one’s destiny.
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Jim Henson Exhibition Guided Tours
Join us for a special guided tour of The Jim Henson Exhibition! The tour costs $5.00 per visitor (on top of admission ticket).
A Thousand and One
A Thousand and One
The Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival is a work of emotional complexity from one of the most exciting new American filmmakers in years: the Queens-born-and-raised A.V. Rockwell, who will appear in person following the film on 11/25.
Before Midnight
Before Midnight
The third outing in the saga of Jesse and Céline, set in Greece in late summer, is a bold, intensely emotional conclusion to their story.
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Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
Ten years after the original Ernest & Celestine film introduced the world to the unlikely friendship between a bear and a mouse, the sequel A Trip to Gibberitia takes the duo on a new adventure. Screening 11/25 (in French with English subtitles and 11/26 (in English).
The Shadow of the Sun (La Sombra del Sol)
The Shadow of the Sun (La Sombra del Sol)
See Venezuela’s Oscar submission for Best International Feature: the story of Leo, a blue-collar worker who participates in a musical contest in the capital of Caracas to help solve his economic problems. With director Miguel Ángel Ferrer in person!
Before Sunset
Before Sunset
One of the greatest romantic films ever made, a brilliantly acted, consistently playful, at times wrenching portrait of lost time, missed chances, and the possibility of changing one’s destiny.
Joonam
Joonam
Named for a Farsi term of endearment, Joonam is a personal film that echoes common experiences of the Iranian diasporic community, and will speak to anyone affected by the dislocation of the immigration experience. Screening 11/26 with director Sierra Urich in conversation with Farihah Zaman.
Before Midnight
Before Midnight
The third outing in the saga of Jesse and Céline, set in Greece in late summer, is a bold, intensely emotional conclusion to their story.
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Apolonia, Apolonia
Apolonia, Apolonia
Filmed over a 13-year period, this is an unpredictable, entertaining, occasionally jaw-dropping documentary in which filmmaker Lea Glob follows artist Apolonia Sokul as she makes her way in the art world, moves around the world, and navigates various relationships. Glob will appear in person.
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Early Works by Todd Haynes
Early Works by Todd Haynes
The Museum’s complete Todd Haynes retrospective kicks off December 1 with a special evening featuring the filmmaker himself, alongside a selection of his rarely screened early works, including The Suicide and Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud.
Dottie Gets Spanked and Other Films
Dottie Gets Spanked and Other Films
Inspired by his own childhood fixation on I Love Lucy, Todd Haynes created this poignant, marvelously transgressive short about a young boy in 1960s suburbia obsessed with a female sitcom star. Haynes will appear in person to present this and other early short films.
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Access Mornings at MoMI
Access Mornings at MoMI
Offered the first Saturday of each month (June 2023–May 2024), free Access Mornings at MoMI are dedicated to families with children on the autism spectrum and give families an exclusive opportunity to explore exhibitions and ...
Puppetry on Screen: Marvels of Media Workshop
Puppetry on Screen: Marvels of Media Workshop
Instructed by puppeteer Brian Carson, this media workshop focuses on the making of a short video (from 30 seconds to one minute) that involves puppet characters talking or resolving a problem.
Poison
Poison
Haynes’s took the independent film scene by storm with his Sundance-awarded breakthrough, an entirely unexpected, confrontational rule-breaker. The 12/2 screening will be followed by a Q&A with Todd Haynes, and introduced by the co-founders and co-presidents of Zeitgeist Films, the film's original distributor.
May December—with Todd Haynes in Person
May December—with Todd Haynes in Person
See Todd Haynes’s brilliant latest film, a tricky and gripping dark comic creation starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, with Haynes in person on 12/2! Tickets free for MoMI members.
Against the Tide
Against the Tide
A lyrical and beautifully observed portrait of a friendship tested by the strains of the modern world, Against the Tide depicts the struggles of Bombay fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh, inheritors of the great Koli knowledge system. With director Sarvnik Kaur in person on 12/2.
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Six by Sondheim
Six by Sondheim
In this delightfully creative compendium of musical numbers across Sondheim’s career, a trio of directors tackle highlights from six different shows in unexpected ways. In his segment, Haynes constructs a sultry and innovative update of Follies’ classic torch song “I’m Still Here." Free screening!
Far from Heaven
Far from Heaven
A magnificently mounted and beautifully acted film that both evokes and subverts the craftsmanship and artifice of Hollywood studio filmmaking, Far from Heaven was writer-director Todd Haynes’s most instantly critically acclaimed film.
Hurricane Season (Temporada de huracanes)
Hurricane Season (Temporada de huracanes)
Hurricane Season is a powerful and stunning film, with an impressive ensemble cast and impeccable cinematography by María Secco. Director Elisa Miller will appear in person.
